Hey, I loved the opportunity to do the post just so I could include pics of that beautiful rod -- even without the bathing beauty[dr, but added her anyway!
http://www.tbucketplans.com/2011/01/28/t-bucket-buyer-beware/
Sam, in light of some previous download problems we're also working with Ron Young and his plans can also be downloaded at http://tbucketplans.com/free-t-bucket-frame-plans
Here's how Chester Greenhalgh describes building a T-Bucket floor in "How to Build a T-Bucket Roadster for Under $3000."
"Buy a sheet of 1/2" exterior plywood to cut the flooring out of. Get some large cardboard boxes and cut and tape them to an approximate copy of the body bottom. Now set the...
$50 is an excellent price for the T-Bucket body AND the pickup bed. You'd probably have to do close to the same amount of work on a new MAS body if they were still around. Congrats! You've scored a body at what is likely 10% of what a new one might cost. In keeping with a low-budget build you'll...
Thanks guys for the warm welcome. In terms of pics, it's still under construction and I'll start with my original mockup and the Y-block before I got the 6 carb Offy to give you an idea where it's going.
This is the project that got me searching for Chester's T-Bucket "how to" book and led to...
As an aging "baby boomer", I got hooked on hot rods when I first saw Norm Grabowski's T-Bucket in Life magazine in 1957. Seeing it show up years later on 77 Sunset Strip, really cemented the T-Bucket desire in my mind.
Got into rod building in high school helping friends with projects like a...